For a solid month, beginning in mid-May, he rose before dawn and made his way to a nearby pond. There, he observed numerous painted turtles, but none seemed interested in leaving the pond to lay eggs.

The western pond turtle usually nests on sandy banks near water or in fields with sunny spots up to a few hundred feet from water. LIFE CYCLE: Hatchlings stay in the nest after hatching until spring, ...

To avoid a similar situation, the turtles are currently being held in concrete-lined ponds, where they are able to escape ...

RANGE: The Sonoyta mud turtle occurs in the pond at Quitobaquito Springs in Arizona's Organ ... to bury a clutch of two to nine eggs sometime between May and September. LIFE CYCLE: Sonoyta mud turtles ...